“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

“It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.”
Quid enim refert, quantum habeas? multo illud plus est, quod non habes.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca (-54–39 BC) Roman scholar

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“know what you want. You want a story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

“It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer